From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:09:35 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section
X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~32141^2~18
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b28242e7e3c08072251da6d7bc4895fbd3e58299;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git

kbuild: ignore section mismatch warnings originating from .note section

.note* sections are ELF notes, which are typically used by external
tools to examine the kernel image.  Since this is removed from any
runtime consideration, it's OK to reference any section from a .note*
section.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index ece09c5..9c35f30 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ static int init_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
 		".debug",
 		".parainstructions",
 		".rodata",
+		".note",		/* ignore ELF notes - may contain anything */
 		NULL
 	};
 	/* part of section name */
@@ -1228,6 +1229,7 @@ static int exit_section_ref_ok(const char *name)
 	/* Start of section names */
 	const char *namelist2[] = {
 		".debug",
+		".note",		/* ignore ELF notes - may contain anything */
 		NULL
 	};
 	/* part of section name */